THE HOMEWORK IN DIFFERENT APPROACHES - SCHEMEORIENTED, MONTESSORI AND UNDESIGNATED APPROACH IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Abstrakt
This article reports on assigning homework in three different elementary level teaching methods for mathematics in the Czech Republic: the Scheme-oriented approach, the Montessori method, and the undesignated mainstream approach. The aim of this study was to find out if the teachers, using the different teaching methods, assign homework in teaching mathematics; for what purposes they as-sign it; and if they find it effective.
Analysis of interviews with six teachers showed that assigning homework partly depends on the teaching method. With the undesignated mainstream approach, homework is assigned daily.
In the Montessori method and Scheme oriented approach teachers see them as the op-portunity for children to finish their work or to look back and correct their own mistakes.